Here's What Wool Pellets Do For Your Garden (Yes, Wool Pellets!) originally appeared on Parade Home & Garden. Gardening’s full of surprises—did you know crushed eggshells can deter slugs and boost ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sheep at Taproot Farms in Nova Scotia. Wool from these sheep will go into making wool pellets at the Taproot Fibre Lab's facility ...

Wool (yes, the fiber grown by sheep) has been seeing increased use in gardens due to the numerous soil and plant benefits. This renewable, natural fiber can be used as mulch right off sheep or ...

Pellets are being produced in Nova Scotia, P.E.I. In a former juice processing plant in Port Williams, a cluster of machines whir and hum as they process piles of wool. For now, the wool processed in ...

It’s been nearly three decades since Charlene Schmid first developed an interest in alpaca wool. “I wanted to make a blanket for my baby,” she says with a laugh. “I learned about alpaca fiber and I’ve ...

LAWRENCE, Neb. (KOLN) - Megan Landes-Murphy fell in love with sheep when her future husband Tom Murphy placed a lamb in her arms. Now they use sheep’s wool to make pellets that are good for the soil. ...

Sheep producers in the Midwest say wool prices have been dismal for decades, but in recent years they’ve plummeted. Now producers are looking for new ways to add value to this fiber or drop it all ...

Kateland Flock, a local producer of sheep wool products in Blithbury, has used the funding to invest in specialist machinery that transforms raw wool into nutrient-rich garden pellets which is a ...

LAWRENCE, Neb. (Flatwater Free Press) - One word best defines how Megan Landes-Murphy and her husband Tom Murphy met, made career choices and launched a unique-to-Nebraska business. Sheep. Neither ...

Tracing its roots back over a century and a half, the story of Wild Valley Farms is one of perseverance, innovation, and a deep connection to the land. When the founders first set foot in the U.S., ...

In a former juice processing plant in Port Williams, a cluster of machines whir and hum as they process piles of wool. For now, the wool processed in this cavernous facility — home of Taproot Fibre ...

It’s been nearly three decades since Charlene Schmid first developed an interest in alpaca wool. “I wanted to make a blanket for my baby,” she says with a laugh. “I learned about alpaca fiber and I’ve ...